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News Items – July 22, 2014

Joyce Turner is a member:
National Native American Veterans Association honors Joyce Turner
Maryland Newszap
Joyce Turner, a social worker with the Veterans Administration working in the Cambridge V.A. Outpatient Clinic in Cambridge, was honored on Monday, July 7, by the National Native American Veterans Association. The Rev. Trish A. Hopkins, representative of the National Native American Veterans Association, made the presentation of a Certificate of Appreciation and a Peace Pipe to recognize Turner for her tireless work on behalf of Veterans on the Eastern Shore. Also on hand to congratulate Ms. Turner was District 37 House Delegate and Senate candidate Addie Eckardt, who thanked Turner for her years of dedication to the veterans.

[Video] What’s to blame for child border crossings?
9News (CO)
Droves of children are crossing the U.S. border without their parents. It has caused a national debate over immigration and whether these kids should be granted refugee status. But, there’s one major question: why is this happening? “They are at risk of abuse. They are at risk of death. They are living in a state of violence and crime every day,” Dr. Liz Mendez-Shannon, professor of social work at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, said.

Mark Lusk is a member:
Government report: Violence, corruption forcing immigrant children to cross into U.S.
Find Law
The view is disingenuous, said Mark Lusk, a social work professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, who has interviewed numerous Central Americans who left their countries. He’s served as a consultant for the U.S. State Department, and is the son of a former U.S. Foreign Service officer who served in South America. “These people are refugees,” Lusk said. “Anyone who flees their country for fear of their life, who flees for safety reasons, is a refugee, regardless of how the government defines them. The United Nations considers them refugees. It is not true that they come here because they expect benefits.”

Luis Zayas is a member:
After U.S. deportation, a Honduran mother and daughter’s uncertain fate
The Fiscal Times
Many of the young Hondurans flocking to the border are fleeing gangs like “Calle 18” and “Mara Salvatrucha” formed in the 1980s in the United States by Central American migrants. “Some of the teenagers who were being recruited by gangs and narcotraficantes are now back in the crosshairs of those people who were wanting to recruit them and maybe now they’ll get penalized for having tried to leave,” said Luis Zayas, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

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